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A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
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See Primrose.
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an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
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A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
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Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
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A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.
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A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.
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An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.
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A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.
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A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
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A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
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A game at cards, now unknown.
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The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer.
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An A-B-C book; a primer.
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First; original; primary.
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To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
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A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
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A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
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One who, or that which, primes
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A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
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